| Description |
257 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A letter to James Laughlin -- Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and the European horizon -- The waste land: from Ur to Echt -- Ulysses in manuscript -- Joyce's letters: life versus work -- Dialectical siblings: Heinrich and Thomas Mann -- Traveling companions: Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann -- Observations on the style of Ernest Hemingway -- Revisiting Dos Passos' U.S.A. -- William Carlos Williams and the old world -- Letters of a writer's writer: Conrad Aiken -- A literary enormity: Sartre on Flaubert -- 34 Rue Lhomond: Francis Ponge -- Recollecting W.H. Auden -- Delmore Schwartz's gift -- Randall Jarrell's Faust -- In memoriam: I.A. Richards (1893-1979) -- Edmund Wilson: the last American man of letters -- Being strong: Edmund Wilson's correspondence -- A contest between conjurors: Nabokov and Wilson -- The private life of F.O. Matthiessen -- Appendix: A letter to F.O. Matthiessen (about T.S. Eliot). |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0811207331 |
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